10 Question Multiple Choice Quiz with Answers
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Working with Text Boxes & Placeholders in PowerPoint Test

1) Examine the screenshot above. What are the items circled in yellow called and what will happen when you click on them?

a) These are called image icons. They are inserted to make a slide look more colorful and professional.
b) These are called content holders. They are hyperlinks to where content such as a table or chart is located.
c) These are called placeholders. They will insert an object such as a table or a chart when clicked.
d) These are called format holders. They work when the PowerPoint presentation is in Live Preview.

2) Which of the following lists contain items which are NOT placeholders?

3) Where can I find a gallery of available predesigned layouts to insert a slide that contains different placeholders?

a) By opening the Slide Master view and licking on Insert Placeholder.
b) By clicking on the Placeholder Gallery icon in the Slides group.
c) By clicking on the Insert tab on the Ribbon and selecting Placeholder Layouts in the Slides group.
d) By clicking on the Layout button in the Slides group under the Home tab.

4) Study the screenshot above. What is the purpose of the green handle circled in yellow?

a) Click this handle to resize the image by increasing its width.
b) Click this handle to rotate the image.
c) Click this handle to move the image.
d) Click this handle to resize the image by increasing its height.

5) Where will you find Alignment options that lets you change the position of one or multiple selected boxes?

a) Under the Home tab in the Drawing group – click on the Arrange button and click on Align.
b) Under the Format Contextual tab in the Arrange group – click on Align.
c) Right click the selected boxes and select Size and Position. Then select Position.
d) All of the above options are correct.

6) To add a Title and a list of bullet points to a slide, you must:

a) Insert a slide layout such as Title & Content or two separate Text boxes first.
b) Type the heading and bullet points directly onto the slide by clicking in the correct position.
c) Insert a Title and Bullet Point placeholder from the Master Slides view.
d) All of the options listed above are correct.

7) To resize an object both in width and height, which of the following options will be successful?

a) Select the object and then drag any of the corner handles of the object to resize it.
b) Set a value for the width and a value for the height of an object in the Size group under the Format contextual tab.
c) Right click the object and select Size and Position from the menu list. Set a height and width value in the Sizes boxes.
d) All of the above options are correct.

8) What does the shortcut combination of holding down the Shift key and pressing the up, down, left or right arrows on your keyboard achieve while you have an object selected?

a) This moves the selected object in small increments either up, down, left or right.
b) This resizes the selected object in small increments.
c) This resizes the selected object.
d) This rotates the selected object.

9) Study the screenshot above. To get a set of boxes to be separated by equal spaces, as those in the image above are, which option would you use?

10) To ensure that the heading box of a slide is lined up with the boxes below it, what would you do?

a) Use the resize function to resize the heading box or subsequent boxes to line up.
b) Use the Align Left option to ensure they are aligned on the left.
c) Use the Align Right option to ensure they are aligned on the right.
d) All of the above options are correct.